For the past
11 years, the Bering Sea has become the home for audiences following the men
risking their lives aboard fishing vessels during crab fishing season on Deadliest
Catch.

On the intense
new season, which returns to Discovery on Tuesday, March 29, the veteran
captains are joined by the show’s youngest skipper to date, 23-year-old Sean
Dwyer, who is following in the footsteps of his recently-departed father.

However, it’s
the show’s longtime captains who are making the rookie mistakes.

Meanwhile,
life on the other veteran ships hasn’t been so easy. In the new season, Sig
Hansen makes a bold risk to search for crab in an area he hasn’t fished in over
a decade and Bill Wichrowski turns to his son to train a new crew.

The new season also comes after a dramatic year off-screen for the extended Deadliest Catch family. In July, a producer was shot and killed outside his Pasadena, California home. Joe McMahon, 25, worked on several episodes in 2013. Less than a month later, captain Tony Lara died at 50 after ten years manning the Cornelia Marie.